About SDC
SDC is a partnership between all eight Danish universities, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).
SDC’s activities include Danish-Chinese research collaboration within six selected focus areas, eight affiliated Master’s programmes with an annual intake of approximately 150 master’s students and training of a large number of PhD students.
The overall objective is to promote and strengthen collaboration between Danish and Chinese learning environments and increase mobility of students and researchers between Denmark and China.
Sino-Danish Center is located at UCAS' Yanqihu Campus north of Beijing.
Joint Managerial Committee
The Joint Managerial Committee is the supreme decision making body of SDC and responsible for SDC's long-term development. Members are appointed for a period of five years.
The committee includes representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Danish universities and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The committee convenes once a year.
Zhou Qi , chairman
Vice President, CAS and President, UCAS
Zhang Yaping,
Vice President, CAS
Wang Yanfen,
Vice President, UCAS
Guo Zhengtang,
Director of Geoscience Department, the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Tan Weihong,
Director of Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS
Mikkel Leihardt, chairman.
Director General, Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education
Brian Bech Nielsen,
Rector, Aarhus University
Henrik C. Wegener
Rector, University of Copenhagen
Ole Skøtt
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark
Mikkel Haarder
Deputy Director, Confederation of Danish Industry
The Danish Board of SDC
The Danish Board consists of eight members representing all Danish universities.
Download minutes from the Danish SDC board meetings.
Download the rules of procedure for the Danish board of the SDC (in Danish).
Henrik C. Wegener
Chairman of the Board
Rector, University of Copenhagen
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Photographer Jon Norddahl")
Rasmus Antoft
Vice Chairman of the Board
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University
Kristine Kilså
Vice Dean for Education
Aarhus University
Jakob Fritz Hansen
Director, Office for Research, Advice and Innovation,
Technical University of Denmark
Martin Jes Iversen
Vice Dean of International Education, Copenhagen Business School
Georg Dam Steffensen
University Director, IT University of Copenhagen
Helle Waagepetersen
Prorector, University of Southern Denmark
Morten Frederiksen
Dean of Social Sciences, Roskilde University
SDC Strategy 2020-2025
The mission for SDC is to add value to the Danish and Chinese societies through collaboration on research, innovation and education.
Download SDC 2020-2025 Strategy (PDF)
The partnership agreement
The agreement establishing the Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research was officially signed 12 april 2010.
Partners
Eight Danish universities have teamed up and bring in strong Danish competences within natural sciences and social sciences. Each Master’s programme is anchored at a Danish university.
Denmark
China
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China’s largest research institution in science, technology and high-tech innovation. CAS comprises more than 100 research institutes located in all parts of China with a total of almost 70,000 staff members.
Since its founding in 1949, CAS has been the most significant contributor to China’s scientific progress. Today, the organisation serves as China’s foremost science and technology advisory body to the Chinese government.
Many CAS institutes play an important role in SDC’s educational activities, including Institute of Process Engineering (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering); Institute of Biophysics (Neuroscience and Neuroimaging); Institute of Chemistry (Nanoscience and Technology); Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (Water and Environment); Beijing Institute of Genomics (Life Science Engineering and Informatics); and many more.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) is a university under the direct leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It is located in Beijing where it operates four campuses, including the Yanqihu-campus north of Beijing where SDC’s educational activities have taken place since September 2017.
Since its establishment in 1978, UCAS has mainly focused on graduate education and it is China’s largest graduate institution with more than 45,000 enrolled students, including 22,300 PhD students and 22,200 Master’s students. In 2012, UCAS opened its doors for undergraduate students for the first time.
The university is widely recognised as one of the top universities in China. As UCAS is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the students have access to the cutting-edge research facilities in China during their research training and dissertation work at the CAS institutes.